Mansfields Gas Works
CHAD
Official Opening of the New Gasometer ?
Until the introduction of Natural Gas, locally produced Coal Gas and the Gasometer storage system was a familiar sight in most towns. Here we have the Gasometer with I assume the staff of the Mansfield Corporation Gas Department.
Here we have a very poor image (due to the high magnification) of the plaque on the Gasometer which I think reads:
MANSFIELD CORPORATION
GAS WORKS 1903
Councillor John Cr ____ Mayor
Alderman J H Blare Chairman
Arthur Crana_ Engineer
Clayton Cox & Co Ld Leeds
Contractors
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I remember the gas works , I walked through every time I went to work from Bradder St to Pelham St, thats when I worked for J H Peggs Transport, 1968 …..1970.
Gary Noble
I’ve long wondered about the gas works at Mansfield. Made from coal you’d have thought, like in most towns, the gas works would have had a railway siding for the the coal supply. Not at Mansfield it seems, it must have all come into the Ratcliffe Gate works by wagon?
The names on the Plaque are: Councillor John Crampton Alderman J. H. Blake Chairman Arthur Graham Engineer Clayton & Son Ld Leeds The Mansfield Advertiser, 6th Nov 1903, reported the Inauguration of the new gas holder.
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